rattle-pate

English

Noun

rattle-pate (plural rattle-pates)

1. Alternative form of rattlepate
   • 1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:

     I ought to have told you of that doctor a fortnight ago; þut, rattle-pate as I am, I forgot all about it.